The Children’s Spot
A snapshot review of a book related to the Non-fiction Feature
Also in Bulletin #45:
The Non-fiction Feature: Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan
The Product Spot: Khan Academy
The Pithy Take
The Cartoon Guide to Statistics covers the basic ideas of modern statistics: the summary and display of data, probability in real-life events, random variables, the Central Limit Theorem, Bernoulli Trials, confidence interval estimation, hypothesis testing, and more.
It combs through each central concept with pictures and clear explanations. Although this book is useful for middle and high school students, there’s no doubt that most adults would benefit as well.
A random variable is defined as the numerical outcome of a random experiment. For example, imagine drawing one student at random from the student body. That’s the random experiment.
The student’s height, weight, family income, S.A.T. score, and grad point average are all numerical variables describing properties of the randomly selected student. They’re all random variables.
The Cartoon Guide to Statistics
Editor: Larry Gonick & Woollcott Smith
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
240 pages | 1993
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